Group Chief Finance Officer (CFO)

Emeraid Group is a development and enterprise conglomerate consolidating specialised subsidiaries across advisory, enterprise support, financial structuring, and asset-backed financing. Support in development and enterprise is too often delivered in fragments: training without financing, funding without a plan, programmes that don't outlast their pilot phase. Emeraid Group exists to close that gap. We bring advisory, capacity building, financial structuring, asset deployment, and technology together as one coordinated system and working end-to-end, from diagnostic to delivery, so that every intervention leads to measurable, lasting outcomes. We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Group Chief Finance Officer (CFO)

Location: Abuja, Nigeria About EIG EIG is developing a lean shared-services platform supporting its businesses and projects across development advisory, enterprise development, renewable energy and related commercial activities. The Group seeks a finance leader who can combine executive judgement with practical financial execution. The Opportunity The CFO will protect liquidity, improve financial visibility, prepare financeable growth opportunities and strengthen accountability across the Group. This is a hands-on leadership role: the successful candidate must be able to interrogate a cash-flow model, review a project budget, organise a funding process and explain a difficult financial decision clearly to the CEO and Board. Core

Responsibilities

Lead financial strategy, annual budgets, rolling forecasts and capital-allocation recommendations; test the affordability of new commitments. Own a rolling 13-week cash forecast, payment planning, working-capital management, receivables follow-up and foreign-currency exposure analysis. Coordinate debt, equity and structured-finance preparation: financial models, data rooms, lender engagement, due diligence, drawdown conditions and covenant monitoring. Deliver reliable entity-level and Group management reporting, with reconciliations, intercompany transparency and clear explanations of profit, cash and risk. Oversee project and grant finance, contract economics, restricted funds, results-based funding claims and shared-cost allocation. Build proportionate controls, strengthen the existing finance team and reduce routine dependence on the Group CEO without weakening oversight. The CFO reports directly to the CEO and has access to the Board or its designated committee on material financial matters. The role does not report through the COO.